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How to answer your biggest questions—with data (w/ Mona Chalabi)

How to Be a Better Human

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Data Visualization for Visually Impaired

Most of the data journalism that I create are data visualizations. The hope is that by creating a better character, people who are visually impaired will be able to better relate to that character. So if I instead am trying to show podcasting salaries by race or ethnicity, maybe I'm drawing, you know, hands holding microphones in the height of the microphone indicate salary. Exactly which skin tone am I going to use in the chart to indicate black, Hispanic, white, Asian? But if I play with that in the chart, maybe suddenly the information is actually quite hard to understand.

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